[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Dave Froble]

On 10/12/2021 10:54 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/12/2021 9:46 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 1:34:47 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj
>> wrote:
>>> Getting VMS compilers, VMS language RTL, VMS RTL, RMS, VMS system
>>> services and DCL working on Linux in a fully compatible manner
>>> would be very tricky.
>>
>> Still less than the ongoing costs of porting the whole of VMS onto
>> new hardware.
>
> I doubt that.
>
> There is really not that much ISA specific in an OS. VMS needs
> Macro-32, Bliss, C VMS extensions etc. but they are needed by
> customers anyway.
>
>>             Like revamping an antiquated driver model with no
>> support for hotplugging, PCI-E, USB, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, 10G+
>> Ethernet, NUMA, GPGPU, scalability to thousands of processors ... all
>> of which you would get for free.
>
> VMS already supports USB, iSCSI, FC, 10G ethernet etc..
>
> CPU's may be limited to 64, but I don't think anyone will
> want more (VMS is not for HPC).
>
> Arne

You're wasting your time Arne.  Lawrence is apparently a Linux fanboy, 
who is speaking and not listening.

I'm guessing there are applications, and not an insignificant number, 
which would suffer from doing away with Macro-32.  Must be real easy to 
dismiss other's concerns and needs.

You know, I'll bet there would be those who thinks his suggests have 
merit.  Hope none of them are in charge of anything.


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